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Re: Bug in certain use of '+=' in automake
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Gary V . Vaughan |
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Re: Bug in certain use of '+=' in automake |
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Sat, 28 Jul 2001 00:43:10 +0100 |
On Friday 27 July 2001 1:51 am, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Andy" == Andy Helten <address@hidden> writes:
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> Andy> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
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> Please don't send HTML to this list.
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> Andy> <p>However, this in a Makefile.am:
> Andy> <p><tt>blah = value1 \</tt>
> Andy> <br><tt> value2</tt><tt></tt>
> Andy> <p><tt>blah += value3</tt><tt></tt>
> Andy> <p>Produces this in a Makefile.in:<tt></tt>
> Andy> <p><tt>blah = value1 value2</tt>
> Andy> <br><tt>value3</tt><tt></tt>
> Andy> <p>Note there is a newline following 'value2' (in the Makefile.in)
> and Andy> 'value3' on a line by itself causes a Makefile error, not to
> mention that Andy> 'value3' is not included in the final value of 'blah'.
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> This definitely looks like a bug.
> I'm leaving it to Gary's discretion whether it will be fixed in the
> 1.4 series.
I'll accept a patch, but I would imagine that 1.5 will be here before the 1.4
branch accumulates enough fixes to justify another maintenance release.
Cheers,
Gary.
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